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America's got scallops: HEALTH

Catch is up, consumers DOCTOR ON DUTY

Oranjestad
shelling out FOR SALE Hospital 7:00 pm / 10:00pm
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week 29, 2 bedrooms Tel. 527 4000
By PATRICK WHITTLE ment that has allowed the $6,000 sat-sat San Nicolas
Associated Press valuable shellfish to grow week 30 1 bedroom IMSAN 24 Hours
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — undisturbed, said Jimmy $5,000 sat-sat Tel.524 8833
America's harvest of scal- Wotton, a scalloper based Pls call: 742 2576 Women in Difficulties
lops is increasing to near-re- out of Friendship, Maine. e-mail: PHARMACY ON DUTY
cord levels at a time when "There's a lot of scallops out sales@arubadirectdeals.com Oranjestad:
the shellfish are in high de- there, and we did really _________________________________211529 Sta. Trupial Tel. 583 8560
mand and the value of the well in the northern Gulf of San Nicolas:
fishery has surged in recent Maine," said Wotton, refer- Seroe Preto Tel. 584 4833
years. ring to a key fishing area off Women in Difficulties
Sea scallops, harvested New England. "The market OTHER
mostly by boats from the has been strong." Dental Clinic 587 9850
cold Atlantic Ocean, are The U.S. scallop fishery is Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
Urgent Care 586 0448
the target of one of the anchored by New Bedford, Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
most valuable fisheries in Massachusetts, the state +297 588 0539
America. New data from where by far the most scal- Women in Difficulties
the National Oceanic lops come to the docks. EMERGENCY
and Atmospheric Admin- Other states with significant Police 100
istration says the harvest scallop fisheries are New Oranjestad 527 3140
topped 58.2 million pounds Jersey, Virginia, Rhode Is- Noord 527 3200
last year, the highest total land, Connecticut and Sta. Cruz 527 2900
since 2011 and the fifth- Maine. Maine scallops are San Nicolas 584 5000
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11141
highest in history according beloved in part because Ambulancia 911
to federal statistics going some of them are har- Fire Dept. 115
back to 1945. vested by hand by divers, Red Cross 582 2219
The availability of scal- though most are taken by
lops for consumers hasn't boat. TAXI SERVICES
changed much as the The price U.S. fishermen re- Taxi Tas 587 5900
U.S. harvest has long been ceive for their scallops at Prof. Taxi 588 0035
supplemented by foreign the dock has fallen some- Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
sources. Prices to consum- what in the last couple of A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
ers have also held about years, though they remain Women in Difficulties
steady. a premium product for TRAVEL INFO
The value of the fishery it- consumers, who typically
self, though, is rising. Ameri- pay $18 to $22 per pound Aruba Airport 524 2424
can scallops were worth for them. American Airlines 582 2700
$532.9 million at the docks The fishery is projecting to Avianca 588 0059
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588 2244
last year. That's the third- land even more pounds Surinam 582 7896
highest figure on record this year, said Andrew
and more than $100 million Minkiewicz, a Washington, Women in Difficulties
higher than the 2014 total. D.C.,-based attorney who CRUISES
The scallop industry is thriv- works with fishing advoca-
ing as a result of years of cy group Fisheries Survival
conservative manage- Fund.q

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